President Mahama has huge political balls, I am not sure whether they smell or not.
But I know for sure he’s really a dead goat who cannot be threatened from afar, except from in-house, with his much needed electoral votes as the bargaining chips.
In a move that is clearly contemptuous of Ghana’s judiciary and would likely create an unnecessary tension between the executive and the judiciary, President has jettisoned all seemingly reasonable opinions and has granted the Montie 3 their freedom, behind the legal cloth of “remission”
The best explanation of remission is this: “If you have been imprisoned and part of your sentence is remitted, this means that you do not have to remain in prison for the full period of your sentence. For example, if you have been sentenced to 8 years’ imprisonment, you may be released after 6 years. In other words, the remaining 2 years of your sentence are remitted.”
Considering the crimes of the Montie 3, the events preceding their trial and the conversational hullabaloo after their imprisonment, it surely must have been burdensome for President Mahama to decide to set them free–shockingly, backed by our old purposeless Council of State.
The truth is, President Mahama does not want anyone or anything to stop him from winning the upcoming elections, thus if party faithfuls whose votes he needs so much are lamenting about the Supreme Court’s conviction of three of their campaign pillars, no matter how diabolical their words were, Mahama had to serve those who will vote for him what they want–in direct exchange for what he wants.
This is an old political trick–give the electorates what they want and they will surely reward you with their votes.
Constitutionally, this is patently a wrong move but politically, the dead goat just made a favourable score and it’s one which will push him well towards the throne he seeks once again.
With just about 3 months to Ghana’s elections, nothing matters more to any political candidate, including the president, than to win the trust and support of the electorates and President Mahama just did that with his democratically unpopular move.
Patching up with the judiciary after the elections wouldn’t be a difficult enterprise for President Mahama but upsetting the electorates already in his basket and failing to serve the party supporters the one thing they asked for, and need to boost their campaign confidence would have surely cost Mahama more than a few days of media ruckus.
The Montie 3 were somewhat campaigning for President Mahama when they fell into the pit of wrong language and if Mahama couldn’t safeguard their freedom, who was going to risk with any sort of unhealthy campaign to aid him in his bid to win the upcoming election?
President Mahama may be an annoying dead goat but once again, he has shown Ghanaians that if you watch his back, he will watch yours too–his loyalty to those who serve him better is “commendable”.
Politically, President Mahama just played the right card–you can worry yourself about the ethical and constitutional implications of his action if by now you don’t know that “all die be die–and all win be win.”

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